Remarks on the letters of Dr. Home, to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Town-Council.

Date:: [1821]

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Credit: Remarks on the letters of Dr. Home, to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Town-Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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of the Queensberry Fever Hospital; and speaks, with due complacency, of “ the great Success which has attended his exertions.” And yet, with all these meritorious exertions and advantages, Dr Home has never succeeded in obtaining any share of pri¬ vate practice,—or, as he chooses to express it, has “ derived no knowledge of the Prac- “ tice of Physic from the lucrative exercise of the profession.” It is indeed sufficient¬ ly curious to remark, that, since the death of Dr Gregory, although we have in our Medical Chairs not fewer than six learned Physicians, yet, in this, the first Medical School in Europe, and the Metropolis of an ancient kingdom, the whole Medical Practice of all these learned persons would not, we believe, equal in amount that of several single Physicians, or even Surgeons, who never enjoyed the advantage which a Professorial Chair is ordinarily supposed to bestow.